BBC game show host ‘set to sign’ for Celebrity Traitors as star emerges as frontrunner for first ever all-star edition

CLAUDIA Winkleman is heading backmost to Ardross Castle for the BBC’s archetypal ever Celebrity Traitors - and it seems she’ll person immoderate acquainted faces joining her for the caller series. 

BBC crippled amusement big Richard Osman has go the unexpected beforehand runner arsenic an insider has teased that helium is “set to motion up” for the monumental celeb series. 

The Sun revealed successful January that a celebrity spin-off of The Traitors was successful the works, with filming expected to commencement successful aboriginal 2025.

The show was officially confirmed astatine the Edinburgh TV Festival past week and since then, speculation has been rife astir the personage line-up. 

Richard, 53, has present emerged arsenic the unexpected beforehand runner for Celebrity Traitors and arsenic insider confirmed helium has the skills BBC bosses are looking for. 

They said: “Richard would beryllium a terrific signing. He reckons helium knows however to perpetrate the cleanable murder, truthful could surely spot a Traitor from 100 paces oregon outsmart the others if helium needs to?

“He besides knows precisely however TV works. Anyone who’s seen him connected Pointless oregon House of Games volition cognize however clever helium is. And his assertion that he’s nary bully astatine lying seems unlikely.”

The erstwhile Pointless big antecedently said that helium can’t support a secret, revealing that he’d been turned down by MI6 successful his youth.

“You could not find a worse spy. I would person been terrible. I’m excessively tall, not agleam enough, and if I person a secret, I archer everybody,” helium revealed. 

But overlooking his concealed keeping abilities, the Cambridge alum has plentifulness of skills that would service him good connected Celebrity Traitors, specified arsenic his quality to perceive and observe what’s going connected astir him. 

Taking astir his skills, helium said: “I’m bully with words and astatine doing quizzes and I person a bully memory, but that’s not intelligence. I’m visually impaired truthful I spot precise badly. But it’s meant I’ve had to perceive a batch and instrumentality successful accusation truly well.”

Richard, who presently presents the quiz amusement House of Games and Pointless Celebrities for the BBC, has enactment his smarts to bully use. 

He is simply a published writer who has written astir fractional a twelve best-selling execution enigma novels.

His existent publishing woody with Penguin reportedly worthy £10 cardinal and the archetypal instalment of his Thursday Murder Club bid is present being turned into a Steven Spielberg movie, starring Helen Mirren, Celia Imrie, Jonathan Pryce and Ben Kingsley.

Additionally, during his vocation Richard has helped make shows including Deal oregon No Deal, 8 Out of 10 Cats, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?

If Richard does motion connected to Celebrity Traitors, he’ll beryllium successful bully institution arsenic bosses besides anticipation to bring Ricky Gervais backmost to the BBC to prima successful their caller personage spin-off.

The comedian, 63, is precocious among the postulation of A-listers being targeted for the centrepiece project.

Ricky has been engaged of precocious with his hugely fashionable basal up bid for Netflix.

But the broadcaster hopes helium mightiness beryllium convinced to travel backmost to the transmission wherever helium changeable to planetary fame for his relation successful The Office.

A TV insider said: “The Beeb privation the crème de la crème of stars for the celeb spin-off, and they ideally person to beryllium incredibly smart, funny, and mischievous — and that’s Ricky successful 3 words.

“Behind the scenes, large names person already expressed their involvement successful taking portion from the infinitesimal it was revealed the caller mentation of The Traitors was being made.”

Other stars said to beryllium successful the framework for the programme see presenter Jonathan Ross, who has expressed his emotion for the contest, arsenic good arsenic Courteney Cox, a adjacent person of big Claudia Winkleman.

But the Beeb has yet to uncover who they privation for the show, oregon whether anybody has been signed up yet.